has been opened in Finistère,” says Dr. Floquet, “cinders or bones have been picked up; why, then, should we not admit that all dolmens are tombs?” This is really a conclusion to which we are almost compelled to come, and the names handed down by popular tradition are, if need be, yet another proof of the same thing. One dolmen at Locmariaker, for instance, is known as _le tombeau du vieillard_, a covered avenue at Saint Gildas is _le champ du tombeau_, and farther on a pathway leading to a ruined megalith is known as the _chemin du tombeau_. The Abbé Harvard speaks of a remarkable monolith known as _la pierre du champ dolent_, and another _champ dolent_ is met with near Rheims, whilst a group of monuments near Tréhontereuc is called the _jardin des tombes_, and the upright stones of Auvergne are known by the characteristic name of the _plourouses_. Whether we examine the megaliths of Germany or of Poland, the mounds of Ohio or of Kentucky, of Missouri or of Arkansas, it is ever the same thing; excavations bring to light striking proofs of their destination, and everywhere we are led to the same conclusions. Archæologists would certainly appear to have been justified in hoping that the tombs thus scattered about all over the world would yield such useful information as to lead to some final conclusions. Unfortunately, however, this has not been the case. Often all trace of burial has disappeared in successive displacements, and more often still, the home of the dead has been violated in the hope, which turned out to be imaginary, of finding treasures; whilst in other cases the earliest inhabitants of the tombs have been removed to make way for their successors, who in their turn were soon afterwards expelled. Victory and defeat were not over with life, but were met with yet again in the grave. [Illustration: 66.] Dolmen at Maintenon, with a table about 19½ feet long.